Tribe: On re-reading the decision, I'm all the more convinced that the blow is a devastating one

[highplainsdem]

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[elleng]

1. ;-(

[Silent Type]

2. If trump never existed, I think this ruling would be a big meh. But he does exist.

[StarryNite]

7. This ruling never would have happened if it were not for tRump.

They are setting him up for complete power.

[Silent Type]

10. I disagree, but nowadays who knows. He's still gotta win in Nov. The court cases were never

going to start before November, once we waited too long to file charges.

[MFM008]

18. He has to win

And be breathing.

[Irish_Dem]

3. "It's a republic if you can keep it."

For some reason this is in my head.
Ben Franklin 1787

[sinkingfeeling]

4. This decision, plus a few others, has sealed the fate of the US. I

don't know how democracy can be saved without the ouster of all Republicans and 6 Supreme Court judges. And that won't happen.

[paleotn]

14. In some important ways, this unties Biden's hands.

As the old say goes...what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[Raven123]

5. Time to release all the evidence against TFG.

Unless it’s a security risk, the public has a right to know. AND time to re-evaluate Executive Privilege. May not always be necessary since POTUS is immune from prosecution

[johnnyfins]

6. It doesn't matter. We are now a defacto dictatorship.

What SCOTUS doesnt realize is that they are on the chopping block too!!!!

[Raven123]

9. Evidence of TFG's activity has been hidden

… as a matter of policy to ensure a fair trial. No trial, no reason to hide the evidence from the voters. I have rights too. I want to know what my President was up to on January 6th ( and the planning leading up to it). We the people are owed information.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Would the administration also have anything damning or embarrassing left about Alito, Thomas and maybe others?

To be publicised as "public education", so part of the general welfare and thus an official act.

[Raven123]

13. I don't know. I think a DOJ investigation of SCOTUS is in order

Were their bribes? We know there is no ethics policy. The ruling is so out of touch with Constitutional history that something happened. I am with Sheldon Whitehouse - dark money.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. The decision also seems to legalise the blanket surveillance of the Supreme Court by the federal state

and handing out the information gathered to anyone.

[Raven123]

25. It certainly does.

[paleotn]

8. Use it to save democracy.

[hadEnuf]

11. Time to declare all-out total fucking war on Trump and the MAGA GOP.

It should have happened 24 years ago but now would be a good time to maybe start?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. The Subversive Court must be bypassed before we fall into a theocratic hell.

[Lonestarblue]

16. And we all know that had this been a case with a Democratic president, the decision would have been totally different.

[BadgerMom]

17. I'll fight by doing all I can, but my heart is broken.

Democracy has never been so damaged in my lifetime. These past few days have been devastating, emotionally and to our nation as we’ve known it.

[FormerOstrich]

19. Is this really what

Mitch McConnell was angling for as he dutifully stacked the court? Or, is this just the blow-back? I can't help but think this isn't what he had in mind (i.e. a Trump dictatorship).

[hurple]

20. Called it...

I saw this coming. Plenty of people here "disagreed" (to put it nicer than they did.

I will say again what I said then... the right-wing does not care, they will break every rule and destroy every convention to rule over us all with an iron fist. They rely on the left's decency and disbelief that they would do something like that to do those things...

[SayItLoud]

22. So right.

We still play fair, talk more than act and keep getting jammed. If Biden doesn't immediately begin a scorched earth movement and stop the talk we will get what they want to give us.

[SayItLoud]

21. The Election

In a few months we will know if enough voters in swing states care about Democracy and decency to turn out and vote Blue, no matter WHO is our candidate and all down the ticket.

[Trust_Reality]

23. The President's oath of office

Defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Six members of the Supreme Court have shown themselves to be enemies of the Constitution. It is the president's job and responsibility to defend it. The time has come to act. Options?
Revoke the citizenship of those six members of the court. Order them deported.
Point out that those six members are part of the plot to overthrow the lawful government as we know it. Order their arrest.
Order them deported.
Or ???
Whatever. But action is needed, not just "be sure and vote".